SIR WALTER FOSTERI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if he can state the number of children under three years of age remaining in metropolitan workhouses at the end of each of the past three years; and the number of children under three years of age who died in the metropolitan workhouses in each of the same years.
§ MR. WALTER LONGThe number of children under three years of age in metropolitan workhouses at the end of 878 last year was 651. The returns for the two previous years do not show the number at this age, but the number of children under two years of age in these institutions at the end of 1899 and 1900 was 501 and 512 respectively. I regret I am not able to give the information asked for in the last part of the Question.